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Funeral ritual

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Title:
Funeral ritual
Collection:
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
Set:
Funeral ritual series
Date:
1967
Country:
Peru
ID Number:
ISB_00298
File Name:
ISB_00298.jpg
Culture:
Quechua
Subject:
Hair cutting
Pichqa
Funeral rites & ceremonies
Isbell, Billie Jean
Image View Description:
View of Funeral ritual
Description:
Billie Jean Isbell's hair is being cut at a funeral after the deceased has been buried. Hair of funeral participants is cut and burned as part of the pichqa ritual.
Bibliography:
Isbell, Billie Jean. To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2135
To Defend Ourselves, Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, by Billie Jean Isbell. Waveland Press, 1985, introduction, chapter 5: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2135
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Rituals: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/rituals
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Series:
Funeral ritual series : 39
Format:
Image
Rights:
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